Besides LTE, the Galaxy Victory is notable for being Virgin Mobile's first Android 4.1 Jelly Bean phone. Otherwise, it has solid mid range specifications, but in several areas including the screen and camera, its a step below Virgin Mobile's former flagship, the Samsung Galaxy S II. Still if you are in an LTE area the phone should deliver two times faster data speeds than the S II's WiMAX and 10 to 30 times faster than EV-DO 3G that is the norm in most Virgin Mobile markets. Jump to the end of this post for a list of current LTE markets.

The phone can be used on any of Virgin Mobile's Beyond Talk Plans:

CurrentBeyond Talk Plans:

Name

Monthly Price (plus sales tax)

Voice

Text/MMS

Data

$35/mo

$35/month

300 min*

unlimited

unlimited**

$45/mo

$45/month

1200 min*

unlimited

unlimited

$55/mo

$55/month

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

* Overage Rates- Voice: 10¢/min** If you use over 2.5GB of data in a month data speeds may be reduced to 256Kbps or below for the rest of your month.

Virgin Mobile has confirmed that the 2.5 GB soft cap will be enforced on LTE data. The cap reduces speed to a maximum of 256 Kbps after 2.5 GB have been consumed in a plan month. Data returns to full speed at the beginning of the next month. There's a $15/month tethering option that bumps the full speed data allowance up to 3.5 GB/month as well as allowing the phone to be used as a wireless hotspot.

Virgin Mobile says that Adaptive Protocol Video will limited to a before cap speed of 600 Kbps. Adaptive protocol is a new video streaming technology that increases video quality to the highest level possible for the available bandwidth. I think Virgin is limiting it both to reduce network load and to keep users from burning through their entire 2.5 GB very quickly. Netflix and other HD quality video streams can use as much as 5 Mbps which would consume 2.5 GB in under two hours!)